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Spatial Extent of Data

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USGS Thesaurus Keywords

lichens, agriculture, human impacts, biogeochemical cycling, vascular plants, biochemistry, nonvascular plants, symbiosis, nutrient cycling, biological soil crusts, land use change, mosses, terrestrial ecosystems, geospatial datasets, nitrogen, soil sciences, soil chemistry

ISO 19115 Topic Category

biota, farming, environment

Other Subject Keywords

crop, pasture, nitrogen cycle, legumes, cryptic, actinorhizal plants, forage, symbiotic, free-living, Nâ‚‚ fixation, asymbiotic, biogeochemical cycles

Place Keywords

Earth, Land

Global gridded dataset of terrestrial biological nitrogen fixation across natural and agricultural biomes

This dataset includes global rasters of terrestrial biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) rates (in kgN/(ha*y)) for each major N-fixing niche in natural biomes (trees, shrubs, herbs, soil, litter, dead wood, ground mosses, biocrusts, and epiphytic lichens) and agricultural biomes (legume crops, forage legumes, and rice). It also includes total natural terrestrial, total agricultural, and total terrestrial BNF rasters. The dataset contains rasters with central and confidence interval values at 0.004 and 1-degree resolution.

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Author(s) Carla Ely, Steven Perakis orcid, Cory Cleveland, Duncan Menge, Sasha C Reed orcid, Benton Taylor, Sarah Batterman, Christopher J Clark, Timothy Crews, Katherine Dynarski, Maga Gei, Michael Gundale, Sarah Jovan, Sian Kou-Giesbrecht, Mark Peoples, Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero, Verity Salmon, Fiona Soper, Anika Staccone, Bettina Weber, Christopher K. Williams, Nina Wurzburger
Publication Date 2025-04-14
Beginning Date of Data 2019
Ending Date of Data 2019
Data Contact
Carla R. Reis Ely
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P13THKNR
Citation Ely, C., Perakis, S., Cleveland, C., Menge, D., Reed, S.C., Taylor, B., Batterman, S., Clark, C.J., Crews, T., Dynarski, K., Gei, M., Gundale, M., Jovan, S., Kou-Giesbrecht, S., Peoples, M., Rodríguez-Caballero, E., Salmon, V., Soper, F., Staccone, A., Weber, B., Williams, C.K., and Wurzburger, N., 2025, Global gridded dataset of terrestrial biological nitrogen fixation across natural and agricultural biomes: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13THKNR.
Metadata Contact
Data Manager
Metadata Date 2025-04-28
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